Nick Tyler
@captainpigheart.bsky.social
Quite geeky dad of 2 beautiful cats. Improviser at MissImp Improv, storyteller, occasional scribbler. Designer, book-wrangler at Aconyte Books. Books, cats, and LEGO.
Dammit, second bag... The other books I picked up last week. The Peter Cushing Scrapbook is from the excellent little Whitstable museum, which has a heap of well-curated Cushing ephemera.
August 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Dammit, second bag... The other books I picked up last week. The Peter Cushing Scrapbook is from the excellent little Whitstable museum, which has a heap of well-curated Cushing ephemera.
Very restrained book acquisitions while down in Kent. Some pleasing rarities though - the last of the G1 Transformers annuals, decent Enid Blyton magazine, and it looks like I am now collecting the pulp magazine instances of John Wyndham stories (goddamn it). I'll post some interiors later on.
August 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Very restrained book acquisitions while down in Kent. Some pleasing rarities though - the last of the G1 Transformers annuals, decent Enid Blyton magazine, and it looks like I am now collecting the pulp magazine instances of John Wyndham stories (goddamn it). I'll post some interiors later on.
I'm not sure this is going to be a good book.
March 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I'm not sure this is going to be a good book.
IN WATERMELON SUGAR: very STRANGE & pleasing post-apoc weirdness, MICKEY7: great funny SF with sadness & existential angst, THE DREAM QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH: gorgeous Lovecraft, THE VISITOR: great fun with the Hellboy mob, THE MERCY OF GODS: massive scifi - a new saga of super aliens vs scientists.
November 20, 2024 at 8:56 PM
IN WATERMELON SUGAR: very STRANGE & pleasing post-apoc weirdness, MICKEY7: great funny SF with sadness & existential angst, THE DREAM QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH: gorgeous Lovecraft, THE VISITOR: great fun with the Hellboy mob, THE MERCY OF GODS: massive scifi - a new saga of super aliens vs scientists.
S.N.U.F.F. by Victor Pelevin. This was such a strange book. A rich dystopia of oppression and manipulation of facts and reality. Super-weird, quite hard work while having a fairly light tone. I'm still not sure what to make of it!
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November 16, 2024 at 3:34 PM
S.N.U.F.F. by Victor Pelevin. This was such a strange book. A rich dystopia of oppression and manipulation of facts and reality. Super-weird, quite hard work while having a fairly light tone. I'm still not sure what to make of it!
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#book #bookshelf #books #bookstagram
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Lovely things I vaguely sort of inherited/thieved. I'd rather like a full set, but I like the two transfers that are left.
June 9, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Lovely things I vaguely sort of inherited/thieved. I'd rather like a full set, but I like the two transfers that are left.
May the Fourth Be With You. A few fun Star Wars books from the olden days.
May 4, 2024 at 10:25 PM
May the Fourth Be With You. A few fun Star Wars books from the olden days.
I have the Tie-fighter pop-up and two other dinky Star Wars books by Running Press.
I'd love to work on a pop-up book! Ideally with the marvels produced by Matthew Reinhart. Ah, the future...
I'd love to work on a pop-up book! Ideally with the marvels produced by Matthew Reinhart. Ah, the future...
May 4, 2024 at 9:54 PM
I have the Tie-fighter pop-up and two other dinky Star Wars books by Running Press.
I'd love to work on a pop-up book! Ideally with the marvels produced by Matthew Reinhart. Ah, the future...
I'd love to work on a pop-up book! Ideally with the marvels produced by Matthew Reinhart. Ah, the future...
Thanks for joining us last night at the Museum of Making to talk about LEGO, creativity, and building with bricks. I brought way too much stuff to show folks! Lovely to meet everyone and see people having fun with LEGO. Hopefully we'll get to do this again!
April 6, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Thanks for joining us last night at the Museum of Making to talk about LEGO, creativity, and building with bricks. I brought way too much stuff to show folks! Lovely to meet everyone and see people having fun with LEGO. Hopefully we'll get to do this again!
Nice plastic things from a little trip out today.
March 30, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Nice plastic things from a little trip out today.
Wow, this is filling up well! Just a few places left for my LEGO workshop and Q&A at Derby's Museum of Making, Fri 5 April. We're going to talk about why @lego is brilliant and creativity. And then we're going to build some stuff you can take home!
Tickets here: derbymuseums.org/event/first-...
Tickets here: derbymuseums.org/event/first-...
March 27, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Wow, this is filling up well! Just a few places left for my LEGO workshop and Q&A at Derby's Museum of Making, Fri 5 April. We're going to talk about why @lego is brilliant and creativity. And then we're going to build some stuff you can take home!
Tickets here: derbymuseums.org/event/first-...
Tickets here: derbymuseums.org/event/first-...
Lovely book acquisition today (from Headway charity shop, Beeston): The Color of War, Spanish Civil War 1936-39. Gorgeous artwork throughout, though it had me at the stamp-filled endpapers anyway.
March 27, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Lovely book acquisition today (from Headway charity shop, Beeston): The Color of War, Spanish Civil War 1936-39. Gorgeous artwork throughout, though it had me at the stamp-filled endpapers anyway.
A very pleasing freebie find! Three more Terry Thomas films!
March 23, 2024 at 11:45 PM
A very pleasing freebie find! Three more Terry Thomas films!
Looking forward to doing a star war this evening at Scifi Weekender!
March 16, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Looking forward to doing a star war this evening at Scifi Weekender!
Happy LEGO roof making day.
March 15, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Happy LEGO roof making day.
My twin Lego towers, currently housed at the Museum of Making in Derby.
March 8, 2024 at 9:43 PM
My twin Lego towers, currently housed at the Museum of Making in Derby.
Gotta get the set!
March 8, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Gotta get the set!
Some of the books I have read since Christmas. Top 5 (in no order): Dark Matter by Michelle Paver, Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge, The Reproductive System by John Sladek, and The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt - all filled me with feelings, excitement and delight.
March 8, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Some of the books I have read since Christmas. Top 5 (in no order): Dark Matter by Michelle Paver, Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge, The Reproductive System by John Sladek, and The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt - all filled me with feelings, excitement and delight.
It's A Trap! The Improvised Star Wars Show, in rehearsal.
February 26, 2024 at 8:29 AM
It's A Trap! The Improvised Star Wars Show, in rehearsal.
Help! I need to narrow these 12 remarkable volumes down to 2 books for my show tomorrow night. Which ones should I pick?
Ersatz Natterjack – Spontaneous Storytelling Man-Machine (Leicester Comedy Festival). Sat 24 Feb, 8.30pm at Knight & Garter
Tickets: comedy-festival.co.uk/events/ersat...
Ersatz Natterjack – Spontaneous Storytelling Man-Machine (Leicester Comedy Festival). Sat 24 Feb, 8.30pm at Knight & Garter
Tickets: comedy-festival.co.uk/events/ersat...
February 23, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Help! I need to narrow these 12 remarkable volumes down to 2 books for my show tomorrow night. Which ones should I pick?
Ersatz Natterjack – Spontaneous Storytelling Man-Machine (Leicester Comedy Festival). Sat 24 Feb, 8.30pm at Knight & Garter
Tickets: comedy-festival.co.uk/events/ersat...
Ersatz Natterjack – Spontaneous Storytelling Man-Machine (Leicester Comedy Festival). Sat 24 Feb, 8.30pm at Knight & Garter
Tickets: comedy-festival.co.uk/events/ersat...
Absolutely killer IT'S A TRAP! THE IMPROVISED STAR WARS SHOW tonight in Leicester. The audience title was "The Ascension of the Jet" - just perfect. I played... A Sith padawan (Darth Christingle), a bandy-legged droid barman, Northern Leia and Scottish Han Solo. I murdered my master as firewood.
February 17, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Absolutely killer IT'S A TRAP! THE IMPROVISED STAR WARS SHOW tonight in Leicester. The audience title was "The Ascension of the Jet" - just perfect. I played... A Sith padawan (Darth Christingle), a bandy-legged droid barman, Northern Leia and Scottish Han Solo. I murdered my master as firewood.
I am doing my first solo show of improvised storytelling at Leicester Comedy Festival this year on 24 February at Knight & Garter. That's a whole hour of making up a story, just for you!
Book now for weird and unpredictable stories: comedy-festival.co.uk/events/ersat...
Book now for weird and unpredictable stories: comedy-festival.co.uk/events/ersat...
February 8, 2024 at 1:27 PM
I am doing my first solo show of improvised storytelling at Leicester Comedy Festival this year on 24 February at Knight & Garter. That's a whole hour of making up a story, just for you!
Book now for weird and unpredictable stories: comedy-festival.co.uk/events/ersat...
Book now for weird and unpredictable stories: comedy-festival.co.uk/events/ersat...
The first of the shows I'm in at Leicester Comedy Festival is next Wed 14 Feb - UNSPEAKABLE ACTS at East Street Lanes. Join us at 7.30pm for movie double-bill like you've never seen before! Followed by the awesome COMIC HARMONIC & FLOWER FREEDOM!
Tix: www.ticketsource.co.uk/missimp/t-dv...
Tix: www.ticketsource.co.uk/missimp/t-dv...
February 7, 2024 at 9:29 PM
The first of the shows I'm in at Leicester Comedy Festival is next Wed 14 Feb - UNSPEAKABLE ACTS at East Street Lanes. Join us at 7.30pm for movie double-bill like you've never seen before! Followed by the awesome COMIC HARMONIC & FLOWER FREEDOM!
Tix: www.ticketsource.co.uk/missimp/t-dv...
Tix: www.ticketsource.co.uk/missimp/t-dv...